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Apple decides undermining its own email privacy feature was a bad idea after all
Apple is reversing a planned change to its Hide My Email feature that would have moved new masked addresses to the @private.icloud.com do…
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Apple is reversing a planned change to its Hide My Email feature that would have moved new masked addresses to the @private.icloud.com domain, which would have let websites instantly recognize and potentially block those addresses. The original plan, announced in June, threatened the privacy purpose of the feature by revealing that an address was masked. By abandoning the change, Apple preserves the ability of users to hide their real email addresses from sites. This step avoids the privacy risk of making masked addresses easily identifiable.
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